Chicago-based GE HealthCare announced it closed its acquisition of AI and imaging solutions company MIM Software, expanding its digital imaging offerings.
Cleveland-based MIM Software provides remote software solutions for oncology, nuclear medicine, cardiac imaging and neuroimaging.
The company touts its products as reducing time spent on manual tasks, allowing clinicians to focus on providing...
The pre-FDA clearance version of MobileCT
Nephosity, a San Francisco-based startup, has joined the swelling ranks of companies to receive Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for a mobile medical imaging app.
The FDA has approved Nephosity's MobileCT Viewer iPad app for remote diagnostic viewing of CT, MRI and X-ray images when a fixed workstation is not readily available,...
This week the US Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to Mountain View, California-based Biosense Technologies, maker of the uChek smartphone-enabled urinanalysis system, that instructs the company to seek 510(k) clearance of its mobile medical app or convince the FDA that such a clearance is not necessary. Sending an "it has come to our attention letter" like this is a rare action for the...
Perhaps more than any other metric, the time it takes to secure clearance is the one that gets the most attention for 510(k) devices. An updated analysis from medical device quality assurance and regulatory consultants, The Emergo Group, finds that the average time it took for a medical device to complete the 510(k) process was about 138 days in 2011, down from 146 days in 2010. The company...
As you learned from MobiHealthNews this week, MIM Software received a second FDA 510(k) clearance for its MobileMIM radiology app. In this case, the Food and Drug Administration approved MobileMIM radiology app for viewing x-rays and ultrasound images for diagnostic purposes. The federal agency also cleared the iPhone and iPad app for reviewing and approving of radiation therapy plans.
"Adding...
MIM Software received its second FDA 510(k) clearance this week for the latest version of its Mobile MIM radiology app. The newest FDA clearance adds support for viewing images to plan for a radiation-based treatment.
Mobile MIM is used to view high resolution diagnostic X-ray and ultrasound images downloaded from either MIM's MIMcloud cloud-based service or a workstation. With the app's latest...
This week MIM Software launched an app for patients that enables them to view and share diagnostic images from their physicians with other caregivers or specialists. The app, called VueMe, is available for iPad, iPhone, and iPhone touch and follows MIM Software's official launch of Mobile MIM. The FDA gave Mobile MIM a 510(k) clearance earlier this year and dubbed it the first diagnostic...
The FDA cleared Abbott's i-STAT 1 Wireless point-of-care blood analyzer last week, marking the fourth wireless-enabled medical device to receive FDA clearance so far this year. Ascom, Monica Healthcare and Mobisante have each received a 510(k) clearance this year for a connected medical device. The FDA has cleared more than a dozen software apps for mobile devices over the years including one...
A special report on “Innovations in Health Care” that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Monday included a feature on mobile devices.
Most of what the Journal reported shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who reads MobiHealthNews: Dr. Eric Topol, chief academic officer at Scripps Health in San Diego, thinks the pocket ultrasound is ending the 200-year reign of the stethoscope. Telemedicine...
